tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769727944915511936.post5973908096366838634..comments2023-10-11T07:41:49.758-07:00Comments on Lightwaveseeker: How Writers 'Father' YouDaniel Wilcoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05178375087492786696noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769727944915511936.post-83744910749559331912016-03-31T10:38:10.026-07:002016-03-31T10:38:10.026-07:00I agree about the need to make it fathers and moth...I agree about the need to make it fathers and mothers. The original idea of "fathering" came from the educator Jim Burke, but when I leaped into new territory with my new story, I ought to have give equal emphasis, not only that he lost his mother to cancer, but that he was mothered as well as fathered by authors.<br /><br />How did I miss such an obvious truth? <br /><br />I guess I'm still too much seeing things from the male point of view. Also, though, my own gone father is much on my mind. Since dealing with Augustinian-Calvinism for so many years, and even having to oppose it at my dad's funeral:-(, I've come to the conclusion there is no after life.<br /><br />I like the ancestry idea of your professor. A new form of the biblical begots;-) <br /><br />It reminds me of my handout I used to give to students on civil disobedience which showed the descent of the idea of civil disobedience from social activist to social activist for over 150 years.<br /><br />Not only did "listening to their voices" teach "me to find my own," sometimes the disparate opposing views of the various thinkers created a rowdy zoo in my mind;-)Daniel Wilcoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05178375087492786696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769727944915511936.post-14899299750437021292016-03-31T06:10:46.742-07:002016-03-31T06:10:46.742-07:00I had a much-loved and admired professor and mento...I had a much-loved and admired professor and mentor who once told me that my intellectual great-grandfather was Umberto Eco. She explained that as she taught me semiotics, her own dear professor taught her, and Eco had taught him. I always liked this idea. <br /><br />In truth, however, many of my "fathers" were mothers. Many of the great names of feminist theory, history, and thea/ology from the past several hundred years alongside the authors of the children's books that may have had an even more profound effect on how I see the world, were women. But whether male or female, I owe so much to these people. Listening to their voices taught me to find my own.Hysteryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02044678910937934731noreply@blogger.com